Editor's Note

Keen-eyed readers of our masthead (all seven of you other than those who are named there) will have noticed several changes. I am delighted to report that, beginning with this issue and continuing with the next, Cristanne Miller and I will be partners in editing the Journal. Then, beginning with the fall issue of 2005, she will take over as sole editor and I will have retired from this pleasant but sometimes hectic post.

Now and for the near future, please continue to address all correspondence, inquiries, and submissions to me at Case. Once the editorship fully transfers from Cleveland to Pomona, updated contact information will appear in forthcoming issues of the Journal, our sister publication the Emily Dickinson Bulletin, and on the EDIS web site (http://www.case.edu/affils/edis/edisindex.html). And, hey, send it to me, send it to her: be assured that it will get to the right place after a while.

For their work on editing and designing the current issue, I am pleased to welcome back to the staff Brad Ricca and Carrie Shanafelt, both of whom in their previous lives as graduate students at Case have served as managing editors.

There are also changes of personnel and structure among those who review manuscript submissions and otherwise provide valuable editorial advice. At the suggestion of the directors of the Emily Dickinson International Society we have begun to create an Advisory Board of distinguished scholars. The initial members are Martha Nell Smith and Joan Kirkby, Professor Kirkby moving over from her previous position on the Editorial Board. And to the Editorial Board, which does much of the crucial and sometimes less than visible work of evaluating submissions and advising how they can best achieve their potential, I am pleased both to welcome Paul Crumbley and to thank Shira Wolosky and Rob Smith for their willingness to continue for new terms.

Enough about inside baseball. As many of you know, EDIS held its fifth major, international conference this summer in Hilo, Hawai'i, at which numerous unsurprisingly splendid papers were presented. We hope to present a selection of some of the best of these, but rather than gathering them in a single conference or selections-from-the-conference issue, we may publish these over several issues.